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One semester at one Australian university opened doors I never knew existed. But universities today face existential threats.
The vital questions that need answering concern possible failings of the intelligence and security services, and the red flags about the terrorists...
Free speech is not an absolute right. It is a social contract. You are free to speak but others are equally free to decide whether they wish to...
The yawning gap between high levies and weak enforcement has invited syndicates into our suburbs. An excise cut might be the only viable solution.
Rather than impeding movement between funds, we want more focus on ensuring consumers are informed of the risks and responsibilities that come with...
Labor’s belated push to make tech giants pay for journalism ignores the more pressing need to regulate the artificial intelligence revolution.
The royal commission has a historic chance to address the rising tide of hate, but to succeed, it must not treat the Jewish community as a political...
The “not as bad as feared” CPI might not be sufficient to get the central bank over the line for a May policy rate increase.
Inflation is too high, but not as bad as feared. The odds of an interest rate rise next Tuesday are about 50-50.
Readers’ letters on generational inequality, privatisation of Australian cricket, private health rebate, and government spending.
The initial nothing-to-see-here attitude should now give way to closer look to determine if there is something deeper and more systemic happening...
Amanda Rishworth points to an uptick in enterprise bargaining agreements since 2023. Yet, its role in encouraging productivity growth is a vexed...
So far, the changes to the scheme have cross-party support. But how long will this display of economic virtue survive sustained pressure from vested...
What Mark Butler announced has major implications for the demand for public hospital services. He shouldn’t have been surprised at the NSW...
The best approach to managing the adjustment to the age of artificial intelligence would be for Labor to get the fundamentals of economic management...
Fallout from the Iran war means the Albanese government now has to persuade the public that it is not a good idea to further slug the energy industry.
The seats in economy that so many of us use are finally getting an upgrade.
We are already seeing industry assistance arguments for bailouts of smelters being dressed up in shiny supply chain security and economic sovereignty...
Investors are ignoring a 94 per cent drop in oil traffic as the S&P/ASX 200 Index hits record highs. The old rules of trade no longer seem to apply.
The brain drain at the agency is extremely worrying at a time when Australia’s total public debt is soon to pass the $1 trillion mark.
The vast majority of Australians are decent people. But decency, if it is quiet, can be overwhelmed by those who are not.
Fair Work Commission decisions that adopt leniency are corrosive to the higher-level purpose of embedding a compliance culture.
The Mythos saga has exposed just how vulnerable we are when the whims of tech bros out of San Francisco don’t align with the needs of Australian...
The New Zealand example is a far cry from the secretive way the Albanese government handles the formulation of contentious policies.
Mistrust in politics is eternal. But in the early days of democracy, at least in principle, it was the people who kept an eye on the state, not the...
The Liberal and National Parties would be smart to support Mark Butler’s reforms, rejecting the opportunity for a short-lived friendship with...
The stalemate in the Middle East war is the enduring backdrop to the instant chaos of another attempted assassination of the US president.
Ceremonies whose sole purpose once was to commemorate those who served, suffered and died are increasingly being made to carry every contemporary...
Ahead of the Japanese prime minister’s visit, has Canberra fully thought through the implications of its burgeoning defence links with Tokyo?
The shooting at the White House correspondent’s dinner was the third assassination attempt on the US president in less than two years.
The young are not falling behind because the old have too much, but because the systems designed to protect them have made it difficult to create new...
Australia’s urban sprawl makes mass transit extraordinarily expensive, and the fare experiments in Victoria, Tasmania and Queensland aren’t helping.
When incoming numbers run ahead of housing supply, infrastructure and services, the consequences are immediate and wide-ranging.
There is no clear financial evidence for the claim that Cricket Australia must sell permanent equity in its best commercial asset to secure its...
Thanks to Donald Trump’s war with Iran, the foundations of the US dollar system have come into question, presenting a clear and present danger to...
Consulting is not about to disappear, and the demand for judgment under uncertainty will not change. What is changing is how that judgment will be...
Waiting for big military hardware to arrive appears to be preparing to fight the last war, as asymmetric and autonomous weapons revolutionise warfare.
On April 25, we elevate courage and willingness to sacrifice as central to who we are. But in everyday life, those traits are often treated with more...
It’s a long plane ride but a quick paycheck. And as the Harry and Meghan show demonstrated, we are suckers for celebrities – even faded ones.
As former premiers from different parties, we have both seen how quickly serious national reform efforts can move from considered policy to contested...
The National Disability Insurance Scheme has become the gold standard for reform. For all the wrong reasons.
Nations can become wealthier and more secure by profitably supplying more of what the world wants most from them.
Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh’s thesis is that disinflation will follow from tremendous investment in artificial intelligence.
Most journalists pay little attention to off budget spending. But we owe it to Australian taxpayers to speak truth about the real state of the...
The government is now rightly, if belatedly, seizing the reform opportunity, which hopefully will help return the scheme to something closer to its...
The real test will be whether this ambitious agenda can be delivered at pace and translate into enduring system change.
It should never have taken so long to stop a scheme hitting $100 billion next decade when it was originally costed at $14 billion.
Labor is tackling a scheme that has become unaffordable and wildly out of control in what it covers. But delivering on its commitment will be harder...
Fewer and fewer Americans think of Israel as David standing up to the Arab world’s Goliath. More and more associate it with heavy-handed militarism.
Australian leaders need to start grappling with how to build a world-class AI skills base; homegrown know-how that might one day be vital for our...
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